Year: 2009

I was talking to Cheryl who writes for the Silverlight User Education team and she was trying to make DataGrid column headers with angled text. She was having trouble getting it to work so we sat down to look at it. We couldn’t make it work, but I went back to my office and started…

Here’s a most excellent demonstration of how to author a custom design experience that’s shared between WPF and Silverlight controls. Karl gives you a detailed, step-by-step walkthrough, complete with Task List breadcrumbs: Walkthrough guidance in the form of Task List hints That’s so clever it blows my mind. Karl shows you precisely how to isolate…

uxlabs@Microsoft has just released Fishbowl, a sample client application for Facebook, complete with source code. Fishbowl requires .NET 3.5 and uses WPF and ClickOnce. If you’re using Windows 7, it also demonstrates new features such as Jump Lists, taskbar previews, and multitouch. You can get more information and install the application from http://www.fishbowlclient.com. You can get…

Building Extensible Rich Internet Applications with the Managed Extensibility Framework In Hall F on Thursday at 11:30 AM Learn how the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 introduces the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) for building customizable applications that can easily be extended by third parties. Whether you are building an extensible data grid, a custom rules engine,…

In past versions of our Visual Studio and .NET Framework documentation, you may have experienced frustration when you tried to access our WPF sample code. No more. We’ve picked the best samples, hoisted them out of the docs, updated them for Visual Studio 2010, and uploaded them to Code Gallery: WPF Documentation Samples. You’ll see…

Docs for .NET Framework 4 Beta 2, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 are now available at MSDN. You can get information on installing the beta here. Here are some of the latest updates to the WPF documentation that you might want to check out. What’s New in WPF Version 4 DataGrid…

If you want to author custom design-time experiences for your WPF controls, this is a good place to start. We have samples for custom adorners, context menus, property value editors, and advanced scenarios. This code is written for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, but you should have luck with the Beta 1 bits. A Silverlight…

The NFL and NBC will be delivering the entire Sunday Night Football season by using Silverlight 3.0 and IIS Smooth Streaming. The first game of the season will be broadcast tonight, with the Tennessee Titans vs. the Pittsburg Steelers. Game starts at 5:00pm PST and you can watch online for free: http://snfextra.nbcsports.com/. Here are a…

The third preliminary version of TestApi, the testing API library has been released. TestApi is a library of test and utility APIs that you can use to test WPF, Windows Forms, .Net Framework, and Win32 applications. Check out Ivo’s blog post for information on changes and new features in this version. Get the TestApi here:…